| Name | Valzergues |
|---|---|
| Caption | Town hall |
| Region | Midi-Pyrénées |
| Department | Aveyron |
| Arrondissement | Villefranche-de-Rouergue |
| Canton | Montbazens |
| Insee | 12289 |
| Postal code | 12220 |
| Mayor | Didier Foissac |
| Term | 2008–2014 |
| Intercommunality | Plateau de Montbazens |
| Longitude | 2.22222222222 |
| Latitude | 44.5 |
| Elevation m | 450 |
| Elevation min m | 261 |
| Elevation max m | 468 |
| Area km2 | 6.49 |
| Population | 223 |
| Population date | 2007 |
Valzergues is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France.
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| Name | Umberto Tozzi |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Umberto Tozzi |
| Born | March 04, 1952 |
| Origin | Turin, Italy |
| Genre | Pop, rock, Italo Disco |
| Instrument | Vocals, keyboards, guitar |
| Associated acts | Off Sound, Laura Branigan |
| Occupation | Singer-songwriter, musician, composer, record producer |
| Years active | 1968–Present |
| Url | Official Umberto Tozzi website |
At only 22 (in 1974) Tozzi had his first success as a songwriter, with the song "Un corpo, un'anima" (lit. "One Body, One Spirit"), co-written with Damiano Dattoli and performed by Wess and Dori Ghezzi. It appeared on Canzonissima, an Italian music programme running from 1956-1974.
In 1976, he released his first album, Donna amante mia ("My loving woman"), from which came the single "Io camminerò" ("I Will Walk") which at the time had been sung with great success by Fausto Leali. In 1977 one of Tozzi's most famous songs was released- "Ti amo".It stayed at number one on the Italian charts for seven months, outselling every other record, and went on to become an international success throughout continental Europe. It also made some inroads in the Americas and Australia, primarily in discotheques. The single was awarded a gold record award in Australia, despite the fact that it only made number 25 on the charts there in late 1979 (source: Kent Music Report, 1980). By late 1980 he releases "Stella Stai" originally vocaled in Italian and a year later in 1981 Puerto Rican youth group Menudo release a Spanish vocaled version re-titled as "Claridad" (Clarity). The Spanish version was also composed by Tozzi himself only that Menudo's version topped elsewhere throughout Latin America.
1978 saw the release of Tu, and the following year Tozzi recorded perhaps his most famous song, "Gloria". The cover version by American singer Laura Branigan first brought Tozzi's name to attention in the USA in 1982. Branigan worked with the arranger and keyboardist of Tozzi's own version, Greg Mathieson, who co-produced her version with Jack White, to give the song what she called "an American kick." The song reached the top of the charts, going gold and platinum in several countries. She would go on to record two more Tozzi compositions, "Mama", and "Ti amo", her version of which went top 5 in Canada and Australia two years after "Gloria". The early years of the 1980s saw the release of the album Tozzi, recorded in concert with a band of American musicians - his first live record.
After a period of absence from the music scene, the idea came together for another collaboration, and in 1987 won the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Si può dare di più" ("More can be given"), sung with Gianni Morandi and Enrico Ruggeri. 1987 was also the year of "Gente Di Mare'"("People of the sea"), performed with Raf at Eurovision which saw them take third place. 1988 saw the release of his second live album, The Royal Albert Hall.
In the 1990s, Tozzi continued to record, resulting in songs such as "Gli altri siamo noi" ("We are the others") which English version is titled "We are all the same", the album Equivocando ("Misunderstanding"), Il grido ("The outcry") and Aria e cielo ("Air and sky"). He also released a greatest hits compilation, Le mie canzoni ("My songs").
In 2000 and 2005, he performed at the Sanremo Music Festival with "Un'altra vita" ("A different life") and "Le Parole" ("The words"). Between the two participations, he released a duet with French singer Lena Ka of his classic "Ti amo" as "Ti amo (Rien que des mots)". Tozzi also released another greatest hits compilation, a 2-disc set entitled The best of, and another single, "E non volo".
Umberto Tozzi remains one of the most popular Italian singers abroad, and in the course of his career has sold more than 45 million records.
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| Name | Simone Christicchi |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Born | 1977, Roma, Italy |
| Died | N/A |
| Genre | Ska R&B; Pop rap Rock |
| Occupation | Singer |
Simone Christicchi (born February 5, 1977 in Rome) is an Italian singer and composer.
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| Name | Sergio Cammariere |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Sergio Cammariere |
| Born | November 15, 1960 |
| Origin | Crotone, Calabria, Italy |
| Instrument | piano |
| Genre | jazz |
| Url | www.sergiocammariere.com |
His music can be classified as jazz and Cammariere performs on the piano and sings.
Cammariere is a distant cousin of Italian singer/songwriter Rino Gaetano.
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| Name | Ennio Morricone |
|---|---|
| Background | non_performing_personnel |
| Born | November 10, 1928 |
| Alias | Maestro |
| Genre | Film music, Classical music, Pop music, Jazz, Lounge music, Easy listening |
| Origin | Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Composer, orchestrator, music director, conductor, trumpeter |
| Associated acts | Bruno Nicolai, Alessandro Alessandroni, Mina, Yo-Yo Ma, Mireille Mathieu, Joan Baez, Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman, Amii Stewart, Paul Anka, Milva, Gianni Morandi, Dalida, Catherine Spaak, Pet Shop Boys and others |
| Years active | 1946 – present |
| Url | http://www.enniomorricone.it |
Ennio Morricone, Grande Ufficiale OMRI (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor.
He is considered one of the most prolific and influential film composers of his era. Morricone has composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and TV productions. He is well-known for his long-term collaborations with international acclaimed directors such as Sergio Leone, Brian De Palma, Barry Levinson, and Giuseppe Tornatore.
He wrote the characteristic film scores of Leone's Spaghetti Westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). In the 80s, Morricone composed the scores for John Carpenter's horror movie The Thing (1982), Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Roland Joffé's The Mission (1986), Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987) and Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso (1988). His more recent compositions include the scores for Oliver Stone's U Turn (1997), Tornatore's The Legend of 1900 (1998) and Malèna (2000), De Palma's Mission to Mars (2000), Lajos Koltai's Fateless (2005), and Tornatore's Baaria - La porta del vento (2009).
Morricone has won two Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, five Anthony Asquith Awards for Film Music by BAFTA in 1979–1992 and the Polar Music Prize in 2010. He has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Score during 1979–2001. He received the Academy Honorary Award in 2007 "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music".
These were the difficult years of World War II in the heavily bombed "open city"; the composer remarked that what he mostly remembered of those years was the hunger. His wartime experiences influenced many of his scores for films set in that period.
After he graduated, he continued to work in classical composition and arrangement. In 1946, Morricone received his trumpet diploma and in the same year he composed "Il Mattino" ("The Morning") for voice and piano on a text by Fukuko, first in a group of 7 "youth" Lieder. Other serious compositions are "Imitazione" (1947) for voice and piano on a text by Giacomo Leopardi and "Intimita" for voice and piano on a text by Olinto Dini.
In the early 1950s, Morricone began writing his first background music for radio dramas. Nonetheless he continued composing classical pieces as "Distacco I e Distacco II" for voice and piano on a text by Ranieri Gnoli, "Verra' la Morte" for contralto and piano on a text by Cesare Pavese, "Oboe Sommerso" for baritone and five instruments on a text by Salvatore Quasimodo.
Although the composer had received the "Diploma in Instrumentation for Band" (fanfare) in 1952, his studies concluded in 1954, obtaining a diploma in Composition under the composer Goffredo Petrassi. In 1955, Morricone started to write or arrange music for films credited to other already well-known composers (ghost writing). He occasionally adopted Anglicized pseudonyms, such as Dan Savio and Leo Nichols.
Morricone wrote more works in the climate of the Italian avant-garde. A few of these compositions have been made available on CD, such as "Ut", his trumpet concerto dedicated to the soloist Mauro Maur, one of his favorite musicians; some have yet to be premiered. From the mid-sixties and onwards, he was part of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, a group of composers who performed and recorded avant garde free improvisations, even scoring a few films during the 1970's.
He made his North American concert debut on January 29, 2007 Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City and four days later at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The previous evening, Morricone had already presented at the United Nations a concert comprising some of his film themes, as well as the cantata Voci dal silenzio to welcome the new Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. A Los Angeles Times review bemoaned the poor acoustics and opined of Morricone: "His stick technique is adequate, but his charisma as a conductor is zero." Morricone, though, has said: "Conducting has never been important to me. If the audience comes for my gestures, they had better stay outside."
On December 12, 2007, Morricone conducted the Roma Sinfonietta at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, presenting a selection of his own works. Together with the Roma Sinfonietta and the Belfast Philharmonic Choir, Morricone performed at the Opening Concerts of the Belfast Festival at Queen's, in the Waterfront Hall on October 17 and 18, 2008. Morricone and Roma Sinfonietta also held a concert at the Belgrade Arena (Belgrade, Serbia) on February 14, 2009.
On April 10, 2010, Morricone conducted a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London with the Roma Sinfonietta and (as in all of his previous London concerts) the Crouch End Festival Chorus. On August 27, 2010, he conducted a concert in Hungary. Two other concerts took place in Verona and Sofia (Bulgaria) on 11 and 17 September 2010.
Morricone and Alex North are the only composers to receive the honorary Oscar since the award's introduction in 1928.
Quentin Tarantino originally wanted Morricone to compose the soundtrack for his most recent film, Inglourious Basterds. However, Morricone refused because of the sped-up production schedule of the film. Tarantino did use several Morricone tracks from previous films in the soundtrack.
Morricone instead wrote the music for Baaria - La porta del vento, the most recent movie by Giuseppe Tornatore. The composer is also writing music for Tornatore's upcoming movie Leningrad.
{|class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Title !! Director !! Gross |- | 1966 || The Good, The Bad & The Ugly || Sergio Leone || $25,100,000 |- | 1977 || || John Boorman || $30,749,142 |- | 1987 || The Untouchables || Brian De Palma || $76,270,454 |- | 1991 || Bugsy || Barry Levinson || $49,114,016 |- | 1993 || In the Line of Fire || Wolfgang Petersen || $176,997,168 |- | 1994 || Wolf || Mike Nichols || $131,002,597 |- | 1994 || Disclosure || Barry Levinson || $214,015,089 |- | 2000 || Mission to Mars || Brian De Palma || $110,983,407 |}
Other successful movies with Morricone's work are Kill Bill 1 & 2 (2001) and Inglourious Basterds (2009), though the tracks used are sampled from older pictures.
Aside from his music having been sampled by everyone from rappers (Jay-Z) to electronic outfits (the Orb), Morricone wrote "Se Telefonando", which became Italy's fifth biggest-selling record of 1966 and has since been re-recorded by Françoise Hardy, among many others, and scored the strings for "Dear God, Please Help Me" on Morrissey's 2006 "Ringleader of the Tormentors" album.
Morricone's film music was also recorded by many artists. John Zorn recorded an album of Morricone's music, The Big Gundown, with Keith Rosenberg in the mid-1980s. Lyricists and poets have helped convert some of his melodies into a songbook.
Morricone collaborated with world music artists, like Portuguese fado singer Dulce Pontes (in 2003 with Focus, an album praised by Paulo Coelho and where his songbook can be sampled) and virtuoso cellist Yo-Yo Ma (in 2004), who both recorded albums of Morricone classics with the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra and Morricone himself conducting.
Metallica uses Morricone's The Ecstasy of Gold as an intro at their concerts (shock jocks Opie and Anthony also use the song at the start of their XM Satellite Radio and CBS Radio shows.) The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra also played it on Metallica's Symphonic rock album S&M;. Ramones used the theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as a concert intro. The theme from A Fistful Of Dollars is also used as a concert intro by The Mars Volta.
His influence extends from Michael Nyman to Muse. He even has his own tribute band, a large group which started in Australia, touring as The Ennio Morricone Experience.
In 2007, the tribute album We All Love Ennio Morricone was released. It features performances by various artists, including Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli, Celine Dion, Bruce Springsteen and Metallica.
Lead singer Adam Trula of the rock group Murder By Death has cited Morricone as a major influence of the band, and their 2008 album Red of Tooth and Claw features the track "Theme (For Ennio Morricone)," an instrumental arrangement styled after Morricone's western sountracks.
British band Babe Ruth has covered several of his themes, most prominently in their song "The Mexican". The adventure video game Wild Arms by PlayStation features a soundtrack which is reminiscent of his work and includes a theme from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly soundtrack.
In January, 2010, tenor Donald Braswell II released his album "We Fall and We Rise Again" on which he presented his tribute to Ennio Morricone with his original composition entitled "Ennio".
* Ciarán Farrell was one of Ennio Morricone's students.
* In 1990 the American singer Amii Stewart, best known for the 1979 disco hit "Knock On Wood", recorded a tribute album entitled Pearls - Amii Stewart Sings Ennio Morricone for the RCA label, including a selection of the composer's best known songs. Since the mid 1980s Stewart resides in Italy, the Pearls album features Rome's Philharmonic Orchestra and was co-produced by Morricone himself.
* Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield of Metallica are fans of Morricone; from whom they took inspiration to write many songs, such as The Unforgiven (song).
* The asteroid 152188 Morricone was named in Morricone's honour on 2007-06-01.
* NBC Sports borrowed Morricone's theme from The Untouchables for use during the closing credits of their coverage of the 2000 American League Championship Series. This was accompanied by a video montage commemorating the network's final Major League Baseball telecast.
* Mr. Bungle have covered several Morricone songs live including Muscoli Di Velluto from Malamondo and Main themes from Città Violenta, Una Lucertola Con La Pelle di Donna and Metti, Una Sera a Cena.
* Fantômas did a cover of the main theme to Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion on their album The Director's Cut — an album of film soundtrack covers.
* Chico Buarque recorded an album with Morricone in 1970 called Per Un Pugno di Samba when the former was exiled from Brazil.
* Wall of Voodoo, of "Mexican Radio" fame, would perform medleys of famous pieces by Morricone at early live shows, as heard on their EP/live album The Index Masters.
* Jackass Number Two uses his song "Ecstasy of Gold" at the beginning of the movie.
* Rapper Immortal Technique samples "Ecstasy of Gold" in his song "Land of the Gun".
* Italian thrash metal band Schizo recorded a cover of Morricone's "The Sicilian Clan" original soundtrack song for their 2007 album "Cicatriz Black".
* The Vandals, in their 1984 album "Peace thru Vandalism", play their own version of the famous theme from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in the introduction to the "Urban Struggle" track.
* The English pop band Erasure covered the main theme of the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1988 as a B-side of their single Chains of Love. The band also performed this theme live during all the concerts of its 1992 tour.
* Hans Zimmer's Parlay in Soundtrack is a tribute to Ennio Morricone's Man with a Harmonica.
* Graeme Revell's scores was thought to have been inspired by Ennio Morricone's cult film and speghetti western scores.
* British band Muse cites Morricone as an influence for the songs City of Delusion, Hoodoo, and Knights of Cydonia on their album, Black Holes and Revelations.. The band has recently started playing the song "Man With A Harmonica" live played by Chris Wolstenholme, as an intro to Knights of Cydonia.
* The ambient electronic act The Orb sampled Morricone's "The Man With The Harmonica" (from the film Once Upon a Time in the West) in the opening to their 1990 single "Little Fluffy Clouds".
* The final installment of the massively popular video game series, Metal Gear Solid, uses in Morricone's song "Here's to You", taken from the film Sacco e Vanzetti.
* Inti-Illimani, in their 2004 Italian concert and album "Viva Italia", play their tribute of the Love Theme from "Cinema Paradiso".
* The generic of Italiques 70's show produced by Marc Gilbert on French television used the soundtrack of Dio è con noi of Ennio Morricone, with a motion picture of Jean-Michel Folon that stayed the generic of the public channel for twenty years.
* On 13 August 2008 at Marlay Park in Dublin, Christopher Wolstenholme of Muse Played Ennio's "Man with the Harmonica" on harmonica before the band ended their set with Knights of Cydonia (A song with Morricone's classical influence).
* The Bandini remix of the Ecstasy of Gold is used in Nike's "Leave Nothing" commercial with Ladainian Tomlinson and Troy Polamalu and directed by David Fincher.
* Jay-Z rapped over "Ecstasy of Gold" in the track "Blueprint2" off of "The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse".
* Chi Mai is used in song Heartless by Black Attack from 1998.
* Independent pro wrestler Eddie Kingston uses The Ecstasy of Gold as his entrance music.
* The UK electronic band The Prodigy sampled The Big Gundown into their version of the song. Which can be found on the Lost Beats EP included with the 2009 album Invaders Must Die.
* American thrash metal band Metallica plays "The Ecstasy of Gold" soundtrack before they play their set at almost every concert. They have been doing so since the 1980s.
* The Book of Eli (2010) film depicts Ray Stevenson whistling Once Upon a Time in America in a car while examining a machete.
* Canadian band Les Georges Leningrad recorded a song entitled "Ennio Morricone".
* The UK band Mamma Freedom who are on the same roster as Ennio Morricone cite him as an influence on their more orchestral songs.
* Morricone's "Tema Di Alì" from The Battle of Algiers is used in the Michael Jordan "Field Generals" Nike Commercial.
* The teaser trailer for Frank Miller's The Spirit used Morricone's opening theme from The Untouchables.
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Carlos Kleiber initially studied chemistry in Zürich, but soon decided to dedicate himself to music. He was repetiteur at the Gartnerplatz Theatre in Munich in 1952, and made his conducting debut with the operetta Gasparone at Potsdam theatre in 1954. From 1958 to 1964 he was Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, and then at the Opera in Zürich from 1964 to 1966. Between 1966 and 1973 he was first Kapellmeister in Stuttgart, his last permanent post. During the following years, he often conducted at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
His American debut came in 1978 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where he again conducted in 1983, his only US orchestra appearances.. His New York Metropolitan Opera debut was in 1988, conducting Giacomo Puccini's La bohème with Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni. In 1989, following Herbert von Karajan's resignation from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleiber was offered, and declined, the post of the orchestra's next music director. Kleiber returned to the Met in 1989 to conduct La traviata, and in 1990 for Otello and Der Rosenkavalier.
Kleiber kept out of the public eye and reportedly never gave an official interview. After he resigned from the Bavarian State Opera, his appearances became less frequent, and he made only a few recordings. Most of these are regarded as very fine; his versions of Ludwig van Beethoven's fifth and seventh symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and of the Symphony No. 4 and No. 7 (Beethoven) with the Bavarian State Orchestra are particularly notable. Other notable recordings include Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 and Franz Schubert's third and eighth ("Unfinished") symphonies, also with the Vienna Philharmonic, recordings of Dvořák's Concerto for piano and orchestra with Sviatoslav Richter, Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus, Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata and Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
He is buried in the Slovenian village of Konjšica near Litija in 2004, together with his wife Stanislava Brezovar, a ballet dancer, who died seven months earlier. He and his wife had two children, a son, Marko, and a daughter, Lillian.
In 2008 Rai Radio 3 (Italian National Radio channel 3), inside its evening program Radio3Suite, broadcast a 10-episode program dedicated to Kleiber's legacy: Il Sorriso Della Musica: Un Ritratto Di Carlos Kleiber ("The Smile Of Music: A Portrait Of Carlos Kleiber"), by Andrea Ottonello, based on great contributions and attestations like the one by Claudio Abbado, Mirella Freni, Maurizio Pollini, and above all Carlos Kleiber's sister, Veronica. In the interview, Abbado says Kleiber has been "the most important conductor of the 20th century".
On 26 September 2009, BBC Radio 3 transmitted a unique documentary, Who Was Carlos Kleiber? Produced by Paul Frankl, and presented by Ivan Hewett with research by Ruth Thomson, this feature was based on interviews with four who knew Kleiber well: tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo, music administrator and Intendant Sir Peter Jonas, music journalist and critic Christine Lemke-Matvey, and conductor–pianist Charles Barber. It may be downloaded at: http://www.mediafire.com/?wn4lnykyqkk You can read transcription of BBC Radio Program at: http://www.carlos-kleiber.com/resources
On 21 June 2010, Ljubljana celebrated Carlos Kleiber's 80th Birthday with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Riccardo Muti.
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